Jim Schwartz held his weekly press conference today and spoke briefly about Sunday's lose.
Anybody who watched the game has their own opinons but let's see what Head Coach Schwartz has to say.
“There are a lot of different ways that you can look at this game. As a player, as a coach, as a fan – you can look at a lot of different things. Are we the team that jumped up 10-0 and played really well and was on a roll? Are we the team that finished 3 and 27 and didn’t finish the game very well, particularly those first couple of drives after the half?"
Schwartz continues, “If you look at the game, you can find a lot of positives. If you look at the game you can find a lot of negatives. In other words, the answer is, we’re somewhere in between. We’re not yet the team that started 10-0. We’re not the team that finished 27-3. We’re somewhere in between and until we learn to play with a lead, when we get a 10-0 lead and all of a sudden extend into 17-0 and keep on driving and keep expecting good things to happen, we’re not going to be the team that we want to be. We need to learn to play with a lead. We need to have that instinct to go ahead and finish it and not wait for something bad to happen. "
Schwartz comments on the Lions Defense by saying, “Defensively, it’s the same thing. We can’t start off and then – you look at Adrian Peterson’s runs, we bottled him up really well at times and, particularly on our backside, and in contain we would lose some edges with him and we had some long runs that came out: 57 yards on two carries, that’s unacceptable also."
So now what? What's on tap for game three? Schwartz says, "Really the answer, as we look at things: we need to learn to play with a lead, we need to finish what we start and we need the confidence to be able to do that.”
As far as Ernie Sims' injury goes, it's not good. The Head Coach says, “Ernie’s got a fairly significant shoulder (injury) the extent of which is still being tested. There’s a good chance that he’ll miss some time.”
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